Education

This menu is for Kathryn Winn Primary and Cartmell Elementary Schools, changes for Carroll County High School and Middle School will be italicized.

Thursday, May 7: Breakfast: sausage biscuit; lunch: hamburger/cheeseburger with bun, lettuce, tomato, pickle, French fries, steamed peas and carrots, peach cup or diced pears. Carroll County High School and middle school will offer chicken biscuit for breakfast.

John Wooden, the famed basketball player and coach, once said, “I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.” Wooden, who would lead UCLA’s men’s basketball team to ten NCAA championships, spent his early working years as an English teacher in Dayton (Ky.) and South Bend (Ind.).

Three Carroll County High School seniors will continue their athletic careers in college. Zakk Hicks, Kelly Layton and Lauren Moore were honored at an athletic signing day ceremony May 1. Hicks will play baseball at Indiana University Southeast; Layton will play volleyball at Georgetown College and Moore will play basketball at Centre College.

A father asks his son to mow the yard. Days pass, the grass grows, and the yard has not been mowed. The father says, “Son, since you didn’t mow the yard when I asked you to, you don’t get to mow the yard. I’m not going to let you mow the yard in order to teach you responsibility.”

Haley Damron, a 2011 graduate of Carroll County High School and senior at University of the Cumberlands, was honored by UC as one of several outstanding students during its annual Honors Day program. She was selected as a member of Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges for 2014-2015.